Monthly Archives: November 2007

Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, November 17LPGA Tour/ADT Championship, 3rd Round – Golf Channel, 2 p.m.NHL/Boston at Montreal – NESN, 7 p.m.NHL/Ottawa at Toronto – CBC/NHL Center Ice, 7 p.m.NHL/Chicago at Detroit – Comcast SportsNet Chicago/FSN Detroit/NHL Center Ice, 7 p.m.College Basketball/Colorado at Wisconsin – Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.Boxing After Dark – HBO, 9:45 p.m. ETNHL/Calgary at Edmonton […]

NFL Viewing Picks for 11/18/07

All Times EasternFox NFL Sunday – Fox, noonCarolina at Green Bay – Fox, 1 p.m. (DirecTV channels 706/722)New York Giants at Detroit – Fox, 1 p.m. (DirecTV channels 708/723)Cleveland at Baltimore – CBS, 1 p.m. (DirecTV channels 709/721)San Diego at Jacksonville – CBS, 1 p.m. (DirecTV channels 710/726)Kansas City at Indianapolis – CBS, 1 p.m. […]

College Football Viewing Picks for 11/17/07 (All Times Eastern)

College Gameday live at Ann Arbor, MI – ESPN, 10 a.m.Ohio State at Michigan – ABC, noonNorthwestern at Illinois – ESPN, noonSyracuse at Connecticut – ESPN2, noonTulsa at Army – ESPN Classic, noonUMass at Hofstra – ESPNU, noonThe Citadel at VMI – CSTV, noon Missouri at Kansas State – FSN, 12:30 p.m.Harvard at Yale – […]

Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

College Basketball/Oklahoma vs. Gardner-Webb at New York – ESPN2, 6:30 p.m.NHL/Montreal at Buffalo – TSN/NHL Network, 7:30 p.m.NBA/NBA/Houston at San Antonio – ESPN, 8 p.m.College Basketball/Florida A&M at Wisconsin – Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.College Basketball/Memphis vs. UConn at New York – ESPN2, 8:30 p.m.Friday Night Lights – NBC, 9 p.m.Man vs. Wild – Discovery, […]

Our Friday Megalinks

Starting this a bit late on a Friday, but time for the megalinks today. Let’s get started. Michael Hiestand of USA Today writes about the growth in internet-only sporting events. Today, we’ll start with the Midwest region. Ed Sherman of the Chicago Tribune talks with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones who’s been leading the charge to […]

Some Thursday Night Linkage

Checking around the net so you don’t have to, I have managed to find some more links this evening. Starting off with the Barry Bonds Indictment coverage, the Sports Media Watch blog has a look at how the network evening newscasts reported the story. And Paulsen has his take on the comments Steven A. Smith […]

Primetime Viewing Picks

College Basketball/Gardiner-Webb vs. UConn at New York – ESPN2, 7 p.m.NHL/Toronto at Boston – NESN, 7 p.m.College Basketball/Bethune-Cookman at Purdue – Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.NBA/San Antonio at Dallas – TNT, 8 p.m.Survivor China – CBS, 8 p.m.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Jorja Fox’s last episode *sigh*) – CBS, 9 p.m.College Football/Oregon at Arizona – ESPN, […]

A Thursday Update

I was going to make a rain reference in the title as it’s been raining in Eastern Massachusetts, but then I realized it may not be raining where you are so I decided against it. Anyway, I do hope you have decent weather where you’re reading this. We’ve had sporadic downpours this morning. Anyway, let’s […]

The Amazing Race – Ep. 3 Preview #2

Thanks to banzai of the Reality Fan Forum for posting this video. Here’s a sneak preview of this Sunday’s episode of The Amazing Race. It shows more into Lorena’s problem with the camel, plus a storm is brewing. Literally.

Thursday Morning Links

Time for some links now. Let’s start with some weekly Thursday media columns. The Worcester Telegram & Gazette’s Bill Doyle writes that Charter in Central Massachusetts has added NHL Network, but not the NFL Network. Joanne C. Gerstner of the Detroit News says the lineup of sports radio station WDFN is in a state of […]

Late Wednesday Night Links

I’ll give you a few links here. Just finished watching the latest edition of Ninja Warrior on G4 in which two Americans who qualified for the Sasuke tournament this past summer got to compete. Unfortunately, they could not advance past the first stage, falling into the muddy water at the Jumping Spider. They tried hard […]

Primetime Viewing Picks

College Basketball/North Carolina vs. Davidson at Charlotte, NC – ESPN, 7 p.m.NBA/New Jersey at Boston – Comcast SportsNet New England, 7:30 p.m.College Football/Akron at Miami (OH) – ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.American Ninja Challenge – G4 8 p.m.Ninja Warrior/Sasuke 19, Parts 1-3 – G4, 9-10:30 p.m.Hotel Babylon – BBC America, 9 p.m.NBA/Lakers at Houston – ESPN, 9 […]

Some Late Wednesday Afternoon Links

I’ve checked around and we have enough links for an update. From the TV Predictions website, we find that DirecTV has added 23 HD channels including several Regional Sports Networks. Tim Lemke of the Washington Times reports in his Sports Business blog about ESPN hiring two newspaper reporters who will join its investigative unit. Ben […]

Our Midweek Links

Time for some linkage today. Let’s get to them. The USA Today’s Michael Hiestand is back today and he writes about the lower ratings for NASCAR this year. From Neil Best of Newsday, we get some blog entries. The first one has Best commenting on Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci who has a business relationship with […]

The US Open to…. VERSUS????

Here are a couple of more links. I was going to incorporate them into the Tuesday Late Update, but I decided to put them here. First from the Sports Business Journal’s Daniel Kaplan and John Ourand comes a story that the US Tennis Association is seriously negotiating with Versus (?) to put the US Open […]

Primetime Viewing Picks

NBA/Celtics at Indiana – Comcast Sports Net New England, 7:00 p.m.NHL/Detroit at St. Louis – Versus, 7:30 p.m.NHL/Montreal at Toronto – Rogers Sportsnet Ontario/NHL Center Ice, 7:30 p.m.College Football/Toledo at Ball State – ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.Triumph and Tragedy: The Ray Mancini Story – ESPN Classic, 8 p.m.Bones – Fox, 8 p.m.House – Fox, 9 p.m.Nip/Tuck […]

Some Tuesday Late Links

We have some links for you on this Tuesday. First, from Awful Announcing via Sports by Brooks, we get the call from Bob Lamey of the Colts Radio Network totally blowing the call of the missed FG attempt by Adam Vinitieri during Sunday night’s Colts-Chargers game. Oops. Thanks to Boston Sports Media Watch for the […]

Tuesday Links Plus a New Look

Back to work for many of you and there’s a new look on the blog as well. I’m trying a new layout just to experiment. This may not stay and I might even change it back, but I’m just checking this out for now. I kind of like it. For regular visitors, you’ll notice the […]

Videos of the Week – Some More Batman Cartoons

Over the past two months, I’ve been giving you a series of Batman cartoons that date back to 1968. They are from the Batman CBS series that ran for one season. They first were part of the Batman-Superman hour, then were spun off into their own series. Unlike the Batman series that starred Adam West […]

Primetime Viewing Picks

College Basketball/New Mexico State at Duke – ESPN2, 7 p.m.NHL/Carolina at Florida – Versus, 7:30 p.m.2007 Hockey Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies – NHL Network (US)/TSN(Canada), 7:30 p.m.Prison Break – Fox, 8 p.m.Monday Night Football/San Francisco at Seattle – ESPN, 8:30 p.m.College Basketball/Wisconsin-GB at Ohio State – ESPN2, 9 p.m.College Basketball/Youngstown State at UCLA – […]

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